House Passes Abortion Rights Protection Bill

The bill would supersede state laws on abortion, give health care providers the right to perform abortions and patients the right to receive them.

The House passed legislation Friday that would guarantee a woman’s right to an abortion, an effort by Democrats to circumvent a new Texas law that has placed that access under threat.

The bill's 218-211 approval is mostly symbolic, as Republican opposition will doom it in the Senate.

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